Why Free Street Photography?

Free Street Photography is a street performance based on mimicking both amateur and professional photographers
who roam the streets during street art festivals and craft art markets in the world at large looking for subjects to shoot.The performance rose out of a need to express a concern for our societies present lack of awareness of the environment, due to the introduction of excessive cyber social networking systems. An action that has led to a way of life giving preference to an impersonal cyber environment over that of a natural and community oriented one as we know it to be.

The camera used for this performance is a re-cycled box camera called the 'Famoso'. It features both a single reflex and digital camera and has an unlimited storage space. The photographs taken with the famoso during performance, are available. Unfortunately they all carry an international copyright on them. Sharing of these photographs on any cyber social networking system is prohibited. Only sharing of the link to this website is allowed.